基督教的创始人也直认不讳的:
奥古斯丁:“当我读柏拉图派的书,我被他们教育我去寻求真理。”(“But when I read those books of the Platonists I was taught by them to seek incorporeal truth” Confessions 7. 20)
德尔图良(Tertullian):“我可以用柏拉图的观点来声称‘每个灵魂是不朽的。’”“For some things are known even by nature: the immortality of the soul, the instance, is held by many ... I may use, therefore, the opinion of Plato, when he declares: ‘Every soul is immortal’”The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. III
革利免(Clement)Stromata第6卷第8章写道:“哲学是[神]特别给希腊人的契约,是理解基督的踏脚石”“philosophy more especially was given to the Greeks, as a covenant peculiar to them -- being, as it is, a stepping-stone to the philosophy which is according to Christ”也有译为“Philosophy has been given to the Greeks as their own kind of Covenant, their foundation for the philosophy of Christ”后半句是“成了基督的哲学奠基石”。
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